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Comment Announcement Grand Prix death cars Eleven die in

Of The-but no

Day

date given yet

Tokyo, June 23.

SPEED UP THAT The Japanese Prime Minister Nobusuke

THE

INQUIRY!

local Police are

Taklinquiries inte

A

why their men in the Western District did not know of the existence of a widespread gambling syndi- cate. It is now getting on- for a month since this was first reported. Why is it taking the Police so long to find the answer?

question has been mean- while asked in Parliament

and yet another smear perpetrated by Mr Thorn- ton in the process. Surely we can do without his interference. Surely Govern ment has not got to be prodded by a Labour MP who is so clearly gunning for Hongkong. We are not auggesting that the Police

are trying to hold anything back in this inquiry, but they should get a move on.

TOT only are questions

Nbeing asked in London,

In

czar-a

-but-in- Hongkong also. There are also ominous re ports of the existence of a gambling

Hong- kong Al Capone-and peo- ple are asking whether gambling rackets are being tackled as thoroughly as they should be, Yeater- day's China Mail told of two successful ralds and the court convictions resulted but it would be naive to believe that the problem involved no more than these occasional small dens.

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the Western District case, people want to justice done. It will not be enough for Headquarters to say that explanations have been accepted or re- jected. If policemen on the beat have a reasonable ex- planation to offer the public want to hear it. We feel this is essential because public confidence in the force is involved and while none would expect the Police to act other than the way

their findings dictate, public interest in this case makes it essential that a full statement is

issued:

LEARLY If irregularities

Chave

Kishi said today he had decided to re- sign as Prime Minister,

DEFENCE

TREATY

He announced his intention a few minutes after the contro- versial U.S.-Japan Security Trealy came into effect.

The Premier did not say, how- ever, when he would step down. The announcement was made through Mr Kishi's chief cabinet Boortanty, Mr Etsusaburu

IN EFFECT Shiina, after a cabinet meeting,

Tokyo, June 23. Japan and the Unued States exchanged rautica- tion documents today for the controversial 0.8.- Japan Security Treaty, op- position to which forced cancellation 01 Iresiden

Eisenhower's visit and brought the impending re- signation of Premier No- busuke Kishi,

In-

Foreign Minister Alichtro Fujiyama and U.S. Am- bassador Douglas Mag- Arthur exchanged struments of ratification in a brief ceremony at the Foreign Minister's officle! -- residence:

The U.S.. Embassy, was given only about an hour. notice by the Japanese Government as to the time and place of the exchange.

The government feared that if too much advance notice were made, there would be widespread demonstrations by leftist- led groups in protest.

The ultra-left Zenga- kuren university students' group had threatened w prevent by force MacArthur's trip to exchange site.

Mr the

Exchange of ratification instruments made the treaty a fact despite weeks of bitter controversy and anti- Kishi, anti - pact demonstrations.-UPI.

GAITSKELL

URGED

TO RESIGN

London, June 22.

Necessity

Mr Kishi said he would resign because he felt there should be a political change after the security treaty be- came effective.

His announcement came al- most simultaneously with the exchange of treaty ratification artleles by Foreign Minister Alichiro Fujiyama and United States Ambassador Douglas MacArthur II,

"I feel there is a need for a change in the political situa- tion," Shiina quoted Mr Kishi, "and I therefore see the neces

sky for me to resign.".

Mr Kishi's move was not un- pected:

He had come under tre- mendous pressure from both the opposition Socialist Party and in factions within his own party to step down.

Most of the criticism of Mr Kishi was directed at his methods in rumming ratification of the treaty through the Lower House after the Socialists had boycotted the session,

Opposition to Mr Kishi and the treaty was so great that the Premier was forced to cancel his Invitation to President Eisenhower in fear that the President would ecme to harm it he visited Japan.

.

Contribution to peace

Mr Kishi sald in a statement that he had staked his political life for the nation's prosperity and the people's welfare. The had new treaty, he said, eliminated the "Inequality" of the old treaty,

He said the new one would contribute to world peace and "to our nation's security and to progress of world humanity,"

There is no doubt," Mr Kishi said, "that there was interna- tional Communist plotting be- hind their forces. I am very concerned about this.

"We must destroy violence, protect democracy and regain international confidence."

This was a direct reference occurred, strong Mr Hugh Gaitskell, leader of

must be taken.

the Labour Party, was to- night urged to resign,

action Quite apart from any ugly ¡ reflections this case may}. east on the force, the A resolution to this effect public has recently shown was passed at a special meeting its strong disapproval of the Hampstead Labour Party. of the extent of gambling

Gaitskell Mr

resides LO

In this Colony by the Hampstead and is a member of rejection of the Football the local party,

in

Two of Birlain's most promising, young, racing drivers were killed in the Belgian Grand Prix recently. First to die was 22-year-old Chris Bristow, dateing a Cooper, Bris- tow hit the straw bales, was instantly killed with head injuries when the car somersaulted. Alan Stacey, the other fatally injured driver, crashed into a bank after a bird hit his 'goggles when he was travelling at nearly 150 mph. - Express Photo,

FINGERPRINTS-A

CUSTOMER'S RIGHT

big Liverpool

store blaze

Liverpool, June 22.

Eleven people including seven

women

perished and 12 others were injured today in the worst fire here since the wartime air raids.

The fire ravaged the Henderson Department Store, owned by Harrods of London. It was being modernised..

Nearly 100 firemen with 15, from a kitchen had seeped into fire trucks fought the fierce blaze. the floor. A pointer was report- Sparks spread the fire across ed to have found flames in a the 40-foot wide street to a celling

cavity beneath the

music store and ignited the roof restaurant-Reuter and AP. timbers of an adjoining news- reel theatre.

Falls to death

a

Eariler a man fell more than 40 Leet

to his death from fourth storey ledge. He had gone back to the top of the building

to see if he could help with rescue work, and was cut off on the narrow ledge alter helping, several shop girls to mfety,

FACTORY GUTTED

Hungerford, June 22. Damage of about £200,000 was caused by fire which gutted a four-storey mill, used as A factory, here 'early today. At the height of the blaze The dead man was a heating names leapt 100 feet into the

employed engineer

onthe | air; and (50. fremen with 11 modernisation project. For re-fighting appliances ime, he was believed to be the called to fight it. only fatality.

were

Some firemen battled their

"A" feet of "ambulances was way to the third floor of the lined up in the street tonight, factory, but were withdrawn and police cleared hundreds of because the building was in onlookers from the vicinity. danger of collapse-China Mail Adjoining streets were condoned Special off and traffic diverted,

Firemen

equipped with breathing apparatus who enter- ed the store four hours later found 10 bodies the fourth storey, The bodies were lower- od to the street on stretchers hoisted aloft by hook and ladder fire trucks.

All trafic was diverted from the centre of Liverpool and a flect of ambulances parked in nearby streets to deal with the injured.

Hundreds of workers left neighbourhood offices and stores

to watch the firefighting.

EXPLOSION DEATHS

London, June 22.

died

One of the men injured to- day in the violent explosion at an ordnance factory in Bishopton, Renfrewshire, Scotland,. in hospital this afternoon,

The bringing

death toll to

seven,

In investigation into

opened.

the

is to be

At the height of the blaze, two causes of the blast men and two women formed a

The explosion demolished human chain on an 18-inch wide three buildings and could be

Indge on the fourth storey and

AFP.

inched their way 50 feet to the heard twenty miles ladder of fire truck down which they were Lafety,

carried to

Bodies recovered

At least four of the ten bodies recovered from the top floor are thought to have been customers. Seven were women, two men,

A man accused of shopbreaking, and simple larceny, explained to Judge

Derek Cons in the Victoria District Court this morning that his and fingerprints were found in three Mongkok shops because he had been a customer at the shops.

asvay

Stabbed soldier improving

cne was unidentifiable.

Bonn, June Police are trying to discover Sapper F. J. Sayers, British their identity from jewellery soldier stabbed in the stomach in a brawl with West German and wraps of clothing.

Liverpool's fire chief, Mr Tom youths last Friday, had a good: Commission of Kelly, said tonight: "We found night at Hamelin hospital and to the violence of the past two

Asked to explain how it was Whoeler, prosecuting, alleged he assaults to the weeks

which leftist that police found his finger-stole more than 50,000 cigarettes, Victoria Remand Prisen when ten bodies on the top floor, but his condition is "good," a nurse

CONY, toys,

candy, he had had interviews with the part of thr's floor collapsed and said this morning. Zengakuren students attacked prints Inside a shop showcase, cloth,

ccca- crashed into the basemant, and She said Sayers was not the Diet and forced the can the accused, Wang Ming, 26, chewing gum, washing powder, Commissioner in three

is possible we might find definitely out of danger yet, cellation of President Eisen- unemployed of no fixed address, two European-style suits, trousions, and that medical evidence it

but "we hope that he will con- The govern- said he had handled the goods sers, a cardigan and $30 in cash showed no marks of violence or other bodies later."

The cause of the fire is not tinue to feel fine." Sayers comez hower's trip. ment has claimed all along that on display, as was a customers from eight Mongkolt shops be injury on his body: the violence was Communist right.

tween November. 4 last year Judge Cons reserved his judg-certain, but detectives are check- from Hurstpierpoint, Sussex. —

ment until tomorrow morning.ing on a report that blazing fat China Mail Special. inspired.

Mr Kishi

2nd May 1 this year,

national unity.

made a plea

for

Wong Laces four charges of shopbreaking and larceny, and larceny. Chiet Inspector T.-W.

1 Poola bill. This must be More than 80 people, twice "Our party, too, will remove four further charges of simple

regarded as a clear mandate the usual number, attended the past differences and form a for the Police to take the Hampstead meeting. Mr Gail-joint front and most drastic steps to re- skell, invited to attend, was not respond to the nation's pectations." he said.-UPI. present-Reuter press it.

will try

to

EX-

MONTY'S VIEWS CRITICISED

Washington, June 22. General Albert C. Wedemeyer, e-ilme commander of U.S. forces in China, today sharply called critlosed what he

Field Marshal Viscount Mont-

gomery's dishing up of Dom-

China convlace me that this fine old soldier should relax on his laurels within the soldiers' domain and avoid the pitfalls within the international arena,"

munist China propaganda. Ho Gen. Wedemeyer clted Mont-

called it "Indeed difficult to swallow."

Clen. Wedemeyer mids his state- ment in an open letter written from his home-st-Boydı. Maryland, to newspaper editors.

He paid high tribute to Viscount Montgomery's achievements in World War II, but said “his recent commenta concerning!

"A

half a billion people, where .be

"exponed

to the archeonspirators Mas Tre-tung, and Chou En-lat both sly and shameless, both particularly adept at distort. ing facts,"

gomery's statement that a Gen. Wedemeyer concludeds description of China a nation of unhappy and de-"To be subjected to Communias

Chinese propaganda emanat pressed people downtrodden and explolled by ruthless leaders" is "not true of the new China,"

He said Montgomery "made a four-day visit to x country extending over four million square miles within who#0

live borders

more than

ing from Peking. Moscow | and other Communist centres

dished

Concentration camp head identified

PLAYED MAHJONG Accused who pleaded not guilty, said he left his sister's home in Stone Nullah Lane, Wanchal, on April 30, and went to play mahjong at a mahjong school in Mongkok.

Wong admitted in cross- examination that he lost in a game at lunchtime on April 30, and again when he went to the "midnight session" Just after midnight on the morning of May 1.

Accused said he left the mahjong school around 2 am, Bonn, June 22.

and went to have his supper in Koppe, a former Wilhelm

Soy Street. He then walked in general, of the Nazi SS who the direction of Shamshulpo was arrested in Bonn three when a man whom he described months ago, has now

a police', informer. called.

been

ag

* identified as the one-time head Tang Kee-chan, stopped him. A of a concentration-campu policeman on the opposite side which 340,000 people were të | of the road then came and ported killed, it was announced arrested him, but did not tell M

Vonight.

accused what he was being Koppe at one time was chief arrested for, Wong alleged...

Druegh

___ALLEGED ASSAULT

is a daily experience-through of German police in most of out the free world, but to Nazi-occupied Poland.

He also alleged that the police have it

*D and said that he had been living assaulted him and made him arilonisted by a dielluggished | under on assumed name with confess and admit to the eight miltary leader of the West is his family and had been work-offences. Indeed difficult to swallowing for a West German com- Chlet Inspector Wheeler told AP.

Wong he had not mentioned tha pany la Bonn--"AP.

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